§ 247b–3a. Training and reports by the Health Resources and Services Administration

§ 247b–3a. Training and reports by the Health Resources and Services Administration

(a) Training The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration and in collaboration with the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall conduct education and training programs for physicians and other health care providers regarding childhood lead poisoning, current screening and treatment recommendations and requirements, and the scientific, medical, and public health basis for those policies.

(b) Report The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, annually shall report to Congress on the number of children who received services through health centers established under section 254b of this title and received a blood lead screening test during the prior fiscal year, noting the percentage that such children represent as compared to all children who received services through such health centers.

(c) Authorization of appropriations There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for each 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by “of”. the fiscal years 2001 through 2005.

(Pub. L. 106–310, div. A, title XXV, § 2503, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1163; Pub. L. 108–173, title IX, § 900(e)(6)(E), Dec. 8, 2003, 117 Stat. 2374.)

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Children’s Health Act of 2000, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

2003—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–173 substituted “Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services” for “Health Care Financing Administration”.